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 published: 2013-05-17New York City Residents Upset Over Artist's Photos Taken Through Their Apartment Windows Draw the blinds! There may be someone peeping in at you and using a telephoto lens to snap photos of you for artistic purposes. Ok, probably not, but the residents of a New York City Tribeca neighborhood luxury apartment building did find themselves to be the unknowing subjects of Arne Svenson's art, which ended up on the walls of the Julie Saul Gallery and on full display, where visitors of the Chelsea establishment could view or purchase the photos.   published: 2013-05-16See The Topless Bea Arthur Painting That Sold For Almost $2 Million Bea Arthur might not be the first Hollywood actress people think of when the word topless comes up, but back in 1991, acclaimed artist John Currin decided to imagine the no-nonsense Golden Girls star in such a state. He procured a photograph, mentally removed the top and painted as accurate of a representation as he could. Not surprisingly, the result turned out to be some combination of jarring and beautiful.  published: 2013-04-12TSA Scanner Used To Find Hidden Artwork Underneath Fresco The TSA may not always be the most popular group of all time, but as it turns out, some TSA-approved technology is pretty freakin’ sweet. The TSA scanners that have long caused innocuous airport-goers angst can actually be used for a secondary reason: to uncover hidden works of art.  published: 2013-04-09Watch Fleetwood Mac Announce New EP, Unveil New Music Onstage In the video from the performance, Buckingham calls the music “The best stuff we’ve done in a long time,” also explaining that a new EP will be available in just a few days, although he didn’t really specify how long that would be.  published: 2012-10-08Vandal Defends Decision To Deface Mark Rothko Painting One day after patrons of the Tate Modern gallery on the River Thames watched an Eastern European man walk up to the Mark Rothko classic Black On Maroon and write on it in black ink, the alleged defacer decided to try and clarify his motives. Answering to the name Vladimir Umanets, he’s apparently aware he’ll be arrested by British police in the near future but is okay with it since he was trying to make “an artistic statement” about galleries and art.  published: 2012-07-21Stolen Matisse Painting Recovered In Florida More Than A Decade Later Pedro Antonio Marcuello Guzman and Maria Martha Elisa Ornelas Lazo were arrested on Tuesday for possession of a painting that had been stolen some ten years ago from the Sofia Imber Contemporary Art Museum in Venezuela. The 1925 painting “Odalisque in Red Pants” was stolen sometime after reaching the contemporary art museum in 1981 but at the time of the theft was replaced with a modestly clever fake, which was not discovered until 2003.  published: 2012-02-21The Scream Could Bring In $80 Million At Auction Over the past two decades, two of the four known copies of Edvard Munch’s The Scream have been stolen. Luckily, each was recovered, likely because selling something that rare on the black market is nearly impossible. Selling it legally to the highest bidder however is another matter entirely.  published: 2011-09-28Bob Dylan Being Accused Of Plagiarizing At Art Exhibit You remember that scene in Finding Forrester in which the kid used Sean Connery’s first paragraph as a jumping off point? This seems to be a little more pronounced than that. The shading, the colors and some of the details are a bit different, but it seems ludicrous that Dylan didn’t at least credit Leon Busy as his inspiration. Stories 1 to 8 of 8
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